A documentary book about child abuse on the internet
The book Caught in the Net describes the internet as the only place that doesn't separate the worlds of children and adults. Directors Vít Klusák and Barbora Chalupová set up fake profiles of three twelve-year-old girls on an online dating site as the starting point for an explosive documentary about internet predators, In the Net. Within five hours, over eighty men had contacted them. This follow-up collection of interviews offers a deeper analysis of the characters from the film Caught in the Net, which caused a huge stir even before its release.
Just like the documentary Caught in the Net, the book Who's Catching in the Net aims to highlight the dangers lurking for children who use the internet daily. It is a written version of the feature-length documentary Caught in the Net, enriched with a more in-depth analysis of the individual characters featured in the film, and even includes an interview with one of the exposed sexual predators from the film.
What is the documentary film Caught in the Net about?
3 actresses, 3 rooms, 10 days and 2,458 sexual predators. An experiment that urgently addresses the taboo subject of child abuse on the internet. Three adult actresses with childlike features are tasked with pretending to be 12 years old using fake social media profiles. In faithful copies of children's bedrooms built in a film studio, they chat and Skype with men of all ages who have found and contacted them online. The overwhelming majority of these men demand sex via video call, send photos of their genitals, porn links or even try to blackmail the girls. The documentary film tells the thrilling drama of these three heroines, a.k.a. "twelve-year-old girls", from casting to in-person meetings, where they meet the predators face to face under the supervision of security and six hidden cameras. The predators' tactics are thus turned against their creators, and the hunters become the hunted.
